California high school sports forced into three-month delay because of coronavirus

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California high school sports forced into 3-month delay because of COVID-19 pandemic.

, in favor of a new calendar that will compact all games, like football, into a few winter and spring months., which regulates high school sports, won't stage any games in any sports until at least December, officials said.

The new calendar would mean football — a staple of fall Friday nights across America's largest state — would be played in the springCIF Southern Section Commissioner Rob Wigod admitted the calendar is not ideal. But because so many California schools have said they're going to start the fall term with just online instruction, this was the only option short of canceling whole seasons.

"The alternative would be to just cancel an entire season or seasons, In other words, since the fall season couldn't hit in the traditional window of August through November and December, we would have announced the cancellation of the fall season today," Wigod told reporters Monday.California had been a model for controlling the coronavirus pandemic before a huge jump in cases in recent weeks.

The World Health Organization has set a target of 5 percent of positive tests and Californians are now coming in at a rate of 7.26 percent in the past seven days,

 

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